Vehicle-spring.



P ATENTED MAR. 31, 1908. W. SMITH & J. H. KLASSBN.

VEHICLE SPRING. APPLIGATION FILED FEB. 13 1901.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

' WILLIAM SMITH AND JACOB H. KLASSEN,'OF LOS ANGIELES, CALIFORNIA.

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' Specificationoi Letters Patent. Patented March 31, 1908.

Application filed February is, 1907. Serial No. 357,170.

To all wllom it may eo'ncem:

Be. it known that we, WILri'I M II. SMITH end JACOB n. Russet, bothcitizens f the United States, residing at Los-Angeles, inthe county ofLos Angeles and Stsite of California, have invented new and useful Imrove- 1 ments in VehiclesSprings, of which the. ollowwith.

hole through the ing is a specification. The objects of I aim inventionare to novidc evehicle spring in which the-usual olt leaves thereof isdispensed This hole, made in the leaves for the essage of a'bolt.therethroughto hold the eaves in place in th'e'conventionel spring nowused on vehicles: It renders the spring week at this point and causes itto breek'at this point.

.1s a plsnlview of the some. Fig. 8-is an elevation of the vehiclespring, the center thereof being shown in vertical section. Fig. 4'is aperspective viewof the leaf holding clip.

' 1 Inthe drawings 5 represents the leevesoif the spring, on the end ofwhich ereu turned.-

lugs 6 of usual construction to hold t e ends from lateral. movement.These leaves are provided in their center with an oil set portion 7'to'prevent the longitudinel movement offthe leaves of the sprin asbetween them- "selves, thereibeing no loo t through the center of theseleaves to ho. d them in place. To

i hold the leaves in contact one with. the other 'at the center thereof,we have provided the r ing holding clipfi, 'coi'nprising an upper andlower member 9 and 10 res ectively. The lower member is provided wit 1 ascrew threaded socket 11 for the insertion therein of the screw threadedholding bolt 12, which when screwed into place in the lower member willproject below the same, the projecting end adapted to enter a socket inthe spring holding plate 13. The lower member has upturned screwthreaded ends 14 adapted to hold the cap 9 ofthe clip firmly in con.tect with the oil set portion 7 of the spring. By this erren ement itwill be seen that the center of the eaf of the spring is not weakened bytheusuel bolt hole therein and the leaves are detachably held in placewhile the ends of the various leaves have a sliding contact with thecompanion leaves, giving the spring ell the advantages of the ordinaryspring with the eleinent'ol weakness in the center thereof removed.

Having described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent s:-

' In a; vehicle spring, a leaf securing clip,

comprising anupper and. at lower member, the ower -Ine1nber providedwith an outwardly progectlng lug adapted to enter the spring holdingplate, in combination with a spring having a plurality of leaves,leevesbeing provided withen off set portion. .In' witness .thatwe claimthe foregoing we have hereunto subscribed our names this 6th day ofFebruary, 1907. v I WILLIAM H. SMITH. JACOB II. KLAJSSEN.

Witnesses I'IENRY T. I'IAZARD,

EDMUND A. STRAUS'E;

the said

